Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Murphy's Law of Communication is an argument in favour of silence or brevity....
Monday, January 25, 2010
I believe everything; convincing me then has zero utility. Holding mutually exclusive beliefs is sane; and belief and action are disparate....
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Self-realisation - even epiphany - is a consequence
Friday, January 22, 2010
There is no development without conflict. A soul that has not been marinated in distress has dubious utility...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
"That surfeiting the appetite may sicken and so die"
To be entertaining, light and light-hearted; to be lambent, frivolous, comic
and authentic. These are difficult in a medium as tenuous as the written
word.
...The haptic is more granular....
and authentic. These are difficult in a medium as tenuous as the written
word.
...The haptic is more granular....
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
I visited my alma mater today, Johannesburg Hospital: Everything was the
same and very different. None of the faces were familiar - I guess 13 years
is a very long time.
The cases were interesting enough - I was introduced to a new clinical
entity: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (
emedicine.medscape.com/article/829008-overview) but something was
lacking....
Nostalgia waxes sweet....
same and very different. None of the faces were familiar - I guess 13 years
is a very long time.
The cases were interesting enough - I was introduced to a new clinical
entity: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (
emedicine.medscape.com/article/829008-overview) but something was
lacking....
Nostalgia waxes sweet....
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Compersion, schadenfreude and viññāna-sota....
Who is an expert on life: the long-lived elderly who lived in interesting times or the author of interesting lives? At what point does reality trump simulation given current technology?
"There are no stupid questions" so stupid people (aka the cognitively impaired) consistently do not ask stupid questions - "self-evident" has it's own variable threshold....
A Tribute to Alice Grey's Diaries
Time to reflect is supposed to be a sine qua non of professional practice; it is the fundament of modern reflective practice. [More circular talk.]
I have time now to reflect and I cycle continually through the legacy-happiness tradeoff; is this an imagined tradeoff: is it possible to have it all: a loving, committed relationship; meaningful family time and extraordinary professional practice?
Consideration after consideration says that it is the nature of the beast: an open mind, an open heart, an acceptance bias and all the optimism imaginable cannot transmute hope into reality.
Even not having to rediscover the wheel; even given positive accidents of genetics and compulsions and circumstances, superlatives truly remain rare.
It is frustrating having this brain - this extraordinary machine - and not having the requisite socket for it's optimal performance. Satisficing still leaves a sense of LACK, like having a high calorie meal lacking in essential trace elements....
Extraordinary is possible if somewhat nebulous. I have to map, define, delineate extraordinary before assessing costs and benefits, tradeoffs, collapsed quantum states...
...Anyone there?
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Japanese argue that every man has 3 hearts: one on his sleeve for all the world to see, one in his breast for his close friends & his secret heart sometimes unknown even to himself.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
cnnbrk: Miep Gies, Anne Frank protector, dies at 100 http://bit.ly/6IzLxh http://ping.fm/Cxnd2
Here's a tribute to Danielle Steele lives: where everyone close to you dies and you lose all your possessions and suffer displacement and alienation and succeed nevertheless...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
If you could write to your past self (10 years ago) what would you say?
New online safety video: Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks http://ping.fm/y1ruL
How Google tells you what men and women want | Technically Incorrect - CNET News http://ping.fm/Bj55d
Friday, January 08, 2010
Thursday, January 07, 2010
How elastic is Dunbar's number? Do Social psychologists & their ilk have bigger numbers?
Lesson for the day: Multitasking is bad; the more emergent the patient the fewer distractions one should allow....
The general average kinesthetic intelligence level is very low....
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Escape from the hormonal stew is escape from the human condition
Art is useless because... http://ping.fm/7vfji
Monday, January 04, 2010
If exercising to failure is desirable is "living to failure"? Living cannot be conserved hence Zen's Bonfire....
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